Thanks, this is helpful! Mathematical maturity is a likely candidate—I’ve done a few college math courses (Calc III, Linear Alg, Alg I), so I’ve done some proofs, but probably nowhere near enough, and it’s been a few years. Aside from Linear Alg, all I know about the other three areas is what one picks up simply by hanging around LW for a while. Any personal recommendations for beginner textbooks in these areas? Nbd if not, I do know about the standard places to look (Luke Muehlhauser’s textbook thread, MIRI research guide, etc), so I can just go look there.
You could check out Best Textbooks on Every Subject. But people usually recommend Linear Algebra Done Right for LinAlg. Understanding ML seems good for ML Theory. Sutton and Barto is an easy read for RL.
Thanks, this is helpful! Mathematical maturity is a likely candidate—I’ve done a few college math courses (Calc III, Linear Alg, Alg I), so I’ve done some proofs, but probably nowhere near enough, and it’s been a few years. Aside from Linear Alg, all I know about the other three areas is what one picks up simply by hanging around LW for a while. Any personal recommendations for beginner textbooks in these areas? Nbd if not, I do know about the standard places to look (Luke Muehlhauser’s textbook thread, MIRI research guide, etc), so I can just go look there.
Nate Soares wrote a series of textbook reviews, and I have as well—there’s discussion of why books were selected and what we got from them.
You could check out Best Textbooks on Every Subject. But people usually recommend Linear Algebra Done Right for LinAlg. Understanding ML seems good for ML Theory. Sutton and Barto is an easy read for RL.
Thanks!